Lemala Ndutu Tented Camp
Seasonal mobile camp · Ndutu, Ngorongoro Conservation Area · Lemala Camps & Lodges
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Outside the gate
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Lemala's Ndutu camp is the December to March half of its Mara and Ndutu mobile camp, ten tents "in the Ndutu region of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area near the border of the Southern Serengeti". It is outside the national park, so you pay NCAA fees, not TANAPA's, but it sits among the calving herds. Ndutu airstrip is 20 minutes away. As with every Lemala camp, the rate is full board and you bring an operator's vehicle and guide. From 20 December it costs $825 a person. Choose it for calving season with your own guide; skip it if you want to be inside the park.
Pros and cons
Pros
- On the calving plains in season
- $330 in early December
- Ndutu airstrip 20 minutes away
Cons
- Outside the national park, in the NCA
- Game drives and transfers extra
- $825 from 20 December to March
- Open only December to March
What's here
- En-suite bathrooms
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Lemala Ndutu Tented Camp's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Serengeti National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$70 plus 18% VAT, so $82.60, per 24 hours from 16 May to 14 March; $70.80 from 15 March to 15 May.
- $83per person, per day
- Vehicle$40 plus VAT, so $47.20, for a foreign-registered vehicle up to 2,000 kg; a Tanzanian-registered safari vehicle pays TSh 20,000, about $8 at TANAPA's TSh 2,555 to the dollar.
- $47per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $639 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
A lodge or camp inside the park adds TANAPA's concession fee on top: $70.80 per adult per night from July to September and $59 from October to June, VAT included. Arriving by road from Arusha adds the Ngorongoro permit of $70.80 per adult each way.
The full fee schedule for Serengeti National ParkRates at Lemala Ndutu Tented Camp
From $330 pppn. 1 to 19 December 2026; $825 from 20 December 2026 to 31 March 2027, per person sharing on Lemala's rate page. Full board; game drives, airstrip transfers and NCAA fees ($70.80 entry and $59.00 concession per adult per night, VAT included) are extra. A day in Serengeti National Park adds TANAPA's $82.60 conservation fee. Lemala does not say whether VAT is in its own rate.
Full board. Meals are included; drinks, activities and park fees are not.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked on 6 October 2026 against each operator's own website or rate sheet, in US dollars per person per night sharing unless the entry says otherwise. Two figures are per room, not per person: Serengeti Serena's $728 and Serengeti Explorer's $750 (a January 2025 opening offer). One figure is a reseller's, not the owner's: Africa Safari Serengeti Ikoma's $154 a night on Priceline (6 Oct 2026, basis not stated). Ndutu Safari Lodge's figures come from a rate sheet that ran to 15 December 2025, the newest on its site. Unless the entry says otherwise, TANAPA fees come on top of every rate inside the park: the conservation fee of $70 plus 18% VAT ($82.60) per adult per 24 hours from 16 May to 14 March, $70.80 from 15 March to 15 May, and the hotel concession fee of $70.80 per adult per night from July to September or $59.00 from October to June, VAT included. Camps at Ndutu and Lake Masek pay the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority instead: $70.80 entry per 24 hours and $59.00 concession per adult per night. Wilderness Usawa is the one rate we found that includes park fees.
Questions about Lemala Ndutu Tented Camp
Is Lemala Ndutu in the Serengeti National Park?
No. Lemala places it in the Ndutu region of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, near the southern border of the Serengeti. NCAA fees apply.
When is Lemala Ndutu open?
From December to March, for the calving season.
Are game drives included at Lemala Ndutu?
No. The rate is full board; a guide, vehicle and transfers are extra.